Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS VII
3. Acknowledgments and Explanatory Notes IX
4. 1. Introduction: Neo-Confucianism and Tokugawa Discourse 3
5. 2. Neo-Confucianism and the Formation of Early Tokugawa Ideology: Contours of a Problem 27
6. 3. Tokugawa Confucian Historiography: The Hayashi, Early Mito School, and Arai Hakuseki 62
7. 4. The Tokugawa Peace and Popular Religion: Suzuki Shosan, Kakugyo Tobutsu, and Jikigyo Miroku 92
8. 5. Characteristic Responses to Confucianism in Tokugawa Literature 120
9. 6. Nature and Artifice in the Writings of Ogyu Sorai (1666-1728) 138
10. 7. Masuho Zanko (1655-1742): A Shinto Popularizer between Nativism and National Learning 166
11. 8. Jiun Sonja (1718-1804): A Response to Confucianism within the Context of Buddhist Reform 188
12. 9. Neo-Confucian Thinkers in Nineteenth-Century Japan 215
13. 10. Nakae Chomin and Confucianism 251
14. List of Contributors 267
15. Glossary 269
16. Index 279